Quotes About Expectations

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

Life ain't the movies.

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life

Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.

I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.

I just don't think that a lot of the time the messages we send kids prepare them for real life.

Some artists go through life not realizing that they have to be happy today. They're always thinking about the next job or the next thing: "I'll get this, then I'll be happy." Then you're miserable.

If you don't measure up to your expectations, realize that you should just be life without expectations.

If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy ... If she's thankful to me, my life will be better ... she will do something for me.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.'

I don't have a normal life.